Some further thoughts on this topic:
I think the best option for someone looking for a no-hassle personal blog host might be to just blog on Twitter. Or Facebook, but you’re selling your soul to the devil if you use Facebook. I’m very active on Facebook but I don’t feel great about it. If somebody has resisted its gravitational pull until now, I strongly suggest they just stay away.
Also great: Tumblr, with a few things to watch out for:
The Tumblr community is weird. I like it and feel like in my heart I fit right in. I am a weirdo myself, even though my corporeal self is a normie middle-aged corporate dude. However, many people will be uncomfortable with the Tumblr community.
Tumblr has a very sketchy reputation in the wider Internet community. If you’re an adult on Tumblr, you’ll get the side-eye.
Tumblr has had a bumpy corporate history, and at times it seemed to be on the verge of shutting down.
On the other hand, you can get your own domain on Tumblr, and in that way keep the weirdos at arm’s length.
And Tumblr’s sketchy reputation acts as repellent for the grifters and self-promoters. Nobody’s building their personal brand on Tumblr. People are there because they like it.
Automattic acquired Tumblr in 2019 and they seem to be in it for the long haul. They knew it was a fixer-upper when they got it. I’m optimistic we’ll see some changes in Tumblr. We can even hope for an Apple-in-the-2000s-type renaissance for it!
Tumblr is dead easy to use, you don’t have to worry about administering the site and it’s just in general a nice blogging platform, once you get used to a few technical quirks that are easy to get used to.
Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook seem to be my primary blogging platforms nowadays. I do a lot of copy-and-paste between the three places.
My Wordpress blog seems to be fallow at the moment. I keep thinking I’ll post longer, more polished, and thoughtful articles to my Wordpress blog, but it never seems to be a good time to do that.
I regularly change this workflow up. I am perpetually dissatisfied with the state of blogging here in the 2020s.